Lauren Scruggs finds inspiration at Olympics

The Plano fashion blogger and model who lost an eye and her hand in a runway accident last December told the NBC’s Today Show on Thursday that she was feeling good and hasn’t had any pain since January, which “is a blessing.”

Lauren Scruggs talked with Today Show host Savannah Guthrie in London, where NBC is broadcasting the Olympics. The model said she wanted to come out to the games because she found inspiration in the athletes and their perserverance, including 16-year-old Gabby Douglas, the first African-American woman to ever win the gold in the Olympic all-around competition.

Douglas, who had just finished an interview with her teammates and Guthrie, then came out and gave Scruggs an embrace to the applause of the show’s outdoor audience.